The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-30
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

this fall.
Feathers will drive flowers from bon
! nets this fall.
Beaded materials continue as much in
favor as ever.
J 1t is said that polonaises and redingote5
are TO prevail in the immediate future.
1t is predicted that long velvet Tedin-
| otes, with satin shirts, will be extensively
worn.
| a Texas woman has a pet alligator
that wags its tail when his name Is
called.
'Phloxes and lantanas are old fashioned
| flowers, lately initiated in the fashionable
! floral jewelry.
Beads about the size of pea made Of
Swiss lapis lazuli are favorite necklaces
for young girls.
Brunettes should not wear pearls. but
they have the exclusive right to anne
thysts and rubies.
New for bonnet trimmings are bands
, of feathers. arranged for winding around
the hat like braid.
White felt sailor hats, with a white
! band around the crown, are worn with
flannel dresses of any color.
A Florida woman has made bed quilt
containing 16, 900 pieces, each less than
the size OF an average thumb-nall.
Clusters of nuts interminged with
] tulle are a novel of trimming sometimes
seen upon LeghOrn and Manila hats.
There are only eleven different sorts
of point lace in existence, and several of
these never find their way to this
country.
The women of the Presbyterian Church
of this country have raised during the
past sixteen years about 81, 80, 900 for
missions.
Miss Minnie E. Folsom, "a near relative
of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has become
preceptress of the Brookings Agricultural
College in Dakota.
The Princess of Wales and other Eng
fish women of fashion are wearing Leg
horn bonnets, trimmed with large flowers,
peoples, artemisias or roses.
The belle of West Virginia is said to
be Miss Mamie Reynolds, of CharlestOwn.
She is twenty years old, and a perfect
representative of the mountain beauty.
Mrs. Floyd, of Boston, has invented a
! waterproof bonnet, which is handsome
and dressy enough for almost any occa-
sion, and is absolutely impervious to
moisture.
Military styles will predominant in the
jackets of next season. They will be
adorned with Brandebourgs, frogs.
fourageres and regular aiguilletes tagged
with metal.
Blouse waists are very popular, and
pretty firm belt for them is made by
winding a ribbon two inches wide three
times round the waist and tying it
through heavy antique silver buckle.
Jet handkerchiefs are the latest idiocy.
They are of net lace, with Jet embrOid
cred borders. When the Jet wears off
they may be utilized as busting cloths,
but that is all the use that can ever be
made of them.
French advices state that the polonaise
increases in numbers and favor over all
other styles of corsages. Made Of thin
materials they are sometimes loose, crossed
on the bust, the waist being defined by
pointed girdle.
Low shoes are very generally worn !;
they have rounded, not pointed, toes, are
laced across the instep, and have medium
high heels. Dull kid uppers with patent
leather foXing, or at least tips of patent
leather, are most used.
Earrings, while not entirely out of
fashion, are not worn nearly so much IS
they were few years ago, and unless
one possesses a diamond set for state
occasions there is very little interest
toward earrings displayed.
Small, short curls are again worn on
the back hair, sometimes with a coil or a
Psyche knot, and again forming all the
back of the couture. Nets of beads and
of silver or gilt cord for holding the
back hair are worn by Parisiennes.
Boston has temperance club exclu-
sively for young unmarried women.
Miss Julia Surpluss, Treasurer of the or
ganization, says no member is permitted
to accept the attentions of man who
drinks, no matter how moderately.
When sashes are worn with basques
they follow the outline of the front, and
may be folded narrow and fiat, or left
wide or loose, as is more becoming to the
wearer. The loops pass under the
position, making the back very bout
FAINT.
Queen Victoria is mourning the death
of her old nurse, Miss SkerrItt, who re-
Gently passed away at the mature age of
ninety four Miss Skerritt had seen
service under Queens Charlotte and
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